Podcast Series Incite Innovation!

Incite Innovation is a podcast series designed to advance innovation leadership and inspire teams. Featuring Cheryl Perkins, it offers fresh insights and incisive guest interviews on key trends, practices, technologies, and ideas. Check out our first two episodes:
 
Episode 1 Collaborative Innovation, Partnerships, and Ecosystems for the Digital Age. How top companies build their networks to deliver complete customer experiences. Open innovation has grown up; what does it take to win today – and in the future?
 
Episode 2 Balancing Long-Term Growth with Short-Term Profits. How to make the business case; what to do when torn between big bets with high growth potential and maintaining the ‘bread and butter.’

Michael Italiano Joins the Innovationedge Team

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Appleton, Wis. (August 13, 2008) — Innovationedge, a global strategic innovation consultancy, has announced the addition of Mike Italiano to their innovation strategy team. As Director of Business Development, Italiano will help clients create new products, services and business models by leveraging structured open innovation techniques to discover, analyze and define new

Innovation Leader Summit – United Kingdom

The Innovation Leader Summit is a must attend for anyone with a personal stake in the delivery of their company’s innovation program. It has been carefully designed to meet the challenges of the world’s fastest moving and demanding industry sectors, including healthcare, food, consumer products, electronics and services. Sponsored by Innovationedge and Pure Insight, this

World business leaders to uncover new innovation strategies at ‘Innovation Leader Summit’

Appleton, Wis. (August 20, 2008) The first ‘Innovation Leader Summit’, developed by partnering innovation consultant companies Pure Insight and Innovationedge, will take place on November 3-4, 2008 at the Copthorne Hotel Slough Windsor, UK. The summit has attracted a global faculty of session leaders as well as a senior ‘Global Practitioner Panel’ from the likes

IRI’s 2008 Member Summit – Denver, CO

Join Cheryl Perkins for IRI’s 2008 Member Summit on October 14-16, 2008, in Denver, CO. This year’s conference theme is Talent 2020: Driving Innovation & Growth. Session Topics Include: •    Leadership Development in a Global Environment •    Next Generation of Innovator/Innovation Leader •    Attracting, Acquiring, & Retaining Top Talent •    Leveraging your People Power •   

Innovation Immersion – Phoenix, AZ

Join Cheryl Perkins at the Innovation Immersion Conference on October 20-22, 2008, in Phoenix, AZ. This program is designed to envelop you in the innovation process (think “experience it yourself session” and innovation lounges), to change your mindset to see what other cannot see (over 50 presentations from the top innovation companies), and to lay

Ideas to Profits – Appleton, WI

Join Roy Luebke and Jeff Lindsay of Innovationedge for the Ideas to Profits Conference. This annual conference, held in Appleton, WI on October 1-2, 2008, is put on by The Wisconsin Innovation Service Center. It targets innovative manufacturers, technology entrepreneurs and independent inventors. Roy will be presenting a keynote titled “Innovation Isn’t Just for Products.”

Podcast 008 – Innovation Talent Management

Speaker: Cheryl Perkins

Cheryl Perkins, founder and president of Innovationedge, shares her insights on attracting, retaining and developing innovators. In this Podcast, Cheryl starts by suggesting some skill sets to look for in potential innovating employees and the importance of defining roles and capabilities when hiring new innovators. She also gives some helpful tips on where to go to find creative employees. Addressing employee retention, Cheryl presents some do’s and don’ts when striving for high employee retention. Cheryl concludes by offering some learning opportunities and experiences that are a great way to develop your employees, as well as other recommendations for bringing out the best in your employees.